Improvement in feather-renovators



f BIGKBLL an NORACONK.

` Feather Renovato. 190.107,999. Patented 9094,1879.

PEERS, PHON-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. G4

F. NoiiAconK, of Milton,

`ELiAs` BICKELL; AND MICHAEL E.

vANiA.

NORAQONK, OF MILTON, PENNSYL- Letters latent No. 107,999,1dated October 4, 1870.

lMPROVEMENT IN FEATHERRENQVATORS.

The Schedule referred tov in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom, Macy concern: Beit known that `we,EnIAs BICKELL and MICHAEL in the county of N oithum berland and btate` of Pennsylvania, have invented i. certain new and useful Improvements in Feather and `Hair--Ren'ovators;`'and we do hereby declarchthat the following isafull, clear, and exact description thereof, `reference being had;to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference inark'ed thereon, which form a 'part of this specification.

. .The nature of our invention consists inthe con- "struction and arrangement of an apparatus for reno- Vvatingfeat-hers and hair, as' will'be hereinafter fully fsetforth." i y In order tolenablcv others skilled in the artto which :our invention appertaius to make and use the same',

` we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring 4to the annexed drawing, which represents `a front elevation of our apparatu`s,`one

half in section. A representsa stove, with closedby means of a pan, G.

`Around this stove is a shell, D, having an opening on top, with` an 'upward-projecting collar olrIm, a, around said opening.

`'The lower edges of the stove A and outer shell D are connected together' by a perforated flange, l),

through which-the air is taken `in at the bottom and discharged, heated, at the to`p`.

The smoke, &'c., iiom'tlie stove passes upward grate, `15,'and the top through the pipe E.

i Another pipev or spout, Vd, leads through the outer shell D into the pan O, for thc'purpose Lof introducingV water into the saine.

Upon supports, G Gr, on each sidefof the stove,

rests ataiik or kettle, H, provided, in the center of fits bottom, with an opening, having a downward-pro- .g jecting'ange, c, said flange being in the shape of an inverted funnel', and fitting over theange ct-on the 'Inside of thevessel is placed another vessel, I,

having a ilange,`f, as seen, to f it closelycver the upi per edge ofthe outer vessel H. The bottom and sides of the inner vessel nare perforated, so that the heat arising from the stove'may pass into the saine, but under the bottom of the vesselI.

i Directly above the opening in the bottom of the "outer vessel H is attached aplate, y, to prevent Vthe `heat from passing directly up through the center of the inner vessel, which wouldcause the contents of said inner vessel to be scorched. i i

N ear the` bottom of the outer vessel H, on the rear side, is a sliding door, J, to be opened when it is de'- `sired to cool ott'the `inner vessel. l

Under thev bottomof theouter vessel H, nearer to one side than the other, issecured a rod, 7i, which rests iu bearings, 'i fi, upon the supports G Gr, thus, as

. in the vessel I, soon heats the feathers.

into the sinokestack E, all substantially as it were, lhingng the'vessel, so-` that it can beraad# 'lhe vessel I is covered by a lid, K, a portion, L, of which is hinged, so that, when the vessel is turned over, the contents may be emptied without removing the entire lid.

Through the center of the lid-K passes a sha-ft, M, having its loweibearing in they center of the bottom of 'the inner vessel I.

Onthis shaft arevarins, N N, placed inclined, as shown, and upon the ripper end of the shaft is'a miter-wheel, It', which gears with a similar wheel, m,'up on theV end `of a shaft and/"crank, O, by means of which the central shaft M and its `arms N N may be.

turned in either direction.

Onthe top ofthe lid K is attached a` seinicircnlar tube, ql, the lid being perforated under saidA tube, and 'a small pipe, p, leads from this tube into the smokestackl E, to carry off all impure air and steam rising from the. inner vessel I.

The feathers are placed in the perforated vessel I,

and the two vessels turned overin position above the stove, which should be previously heated. rlhe heat rising from the stove passing through thc perfor-ations When they are suiciently heated, water is poured through the spout d into the pan O, and is at once converted into steam, which also passes up through the feathers.V The feathers being heated before any steam Ais admitted, no condensation-takes place, but the steam, absorbing all impurities in the feathers, passes out through the tubes a and p, and the smoke-stack E.

' When the water has been all converted into steam, the heated air from'the stove takesits place,and s'oonA completely dries the feathers.

During the whole of this process the crank O is operated so as to tiii'n the shaft M and arms N N first in onedirectioii and then in the other, whereby N N, all constructed and arranged siibstantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The .perforated lid't, tube n, andpipe ip, leading and for the purposes herein set, forth. i

In -testimony that we claim theforegoing as our own, we aiiix our signatures in presence of two-wit- UGSSGS.

' ELIAS .BICKELL MICHAEL NoRACoNK.

Witnesses:

E. W.` GHAHN, W. K.' WERTMAN. 

